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Monday, February 11, 2013

Knitting for Strong Start

The Strong Start preschool program had a naked baby doll and the program leader said she had not been able to find clothing to fit it. She had one shirt that would not do up, and a pair of pants that could not completely cover the doll's bottom. I had to do something about it!

I borrowed the chubby little thing for the weekend and she/he went back with this outfit.

My daughter made the adorable earred hat.

I made the bib,

a pair of panties,

and a little knitted sleeper.

I custom fit the sleeper and panties by using the numbers for the width of the largest size but knitting only to the length of the smallest size.

I also altered the pattern to include buttonholes rather than separate, crocheted, button loops.

I'm sure that's the case icicle, the kids were not complaining about the naked baby.

This is a bit of a late post bearpicnic. We did the knitting on a weekend and returned the baby a week ago Monday. The new clothing items were very well received by the staff and parents. I never actually saw the reaction of the various children. I did notice the hat was off and laying in the "housekeeping" centre later in the day. I looked around and could not see the baby anywhere. I haven't been back yet to see if the mysteriously disappearing baby ever reappeared.